Detective Conan 708

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Chapter 708

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Text on the left: Could those numbers be...!?
Title: File 708 Flower Blossom in Full Bloom

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Kobayashi: I'm sorry. I don't remember...

Kobayashi: And that girl...
Kobayashi: It wasn't me...

Kobayashi: Are you sure it wasn't actually Officer Satou?

Kobayashi: Well, I'll be going...
Shiratori: Ah...

Shiratori: Wait...

Text in right margin: Shiratori's confession did not reach Kobayashi-sensei's heart...

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Ai: Looks like your precious trump card...
Ai: was a dud...

Ayumi: But that was such a nice memory of you rescuing Kobayashi-sensei from some bad guys who were shoplifting from a bookstore when you were kids...
Genta: It's because you put on airs and didn't tell her all this time!
Mitsuhiko: And didn't you change the story?

Mitsuhiko: You didn't become a police officer because you saw Kobayashi-sensei get mad at the shoplifters...
Mitsuhiko: It was after that when you she gave you a cherry blossom decoration made from a straw wrapper, right?

Ayumi: That's right, that's right! Wasn't it because she said that the mark that all police wear, the cherry blossom, is the flower of strength, kindness, and justice?
Shiratori: Ah, well...
Shiratori: I thought it would be better to tell her I became a police officer from seeing how brave she was...

Conan: Most likely...the words "brave" and "police officer" made her think of Officer Satou who looks a lot like her...

Shiratori: I-I have to say it right this time...
Ai: No!
Genta: If you make excuses now, it'll have the opposite effect...
Genta: And she might not listen to you even if you talk to her.

Shiratori: Then what should I do...?
Conan: There's only one way...

04

Conan: Catch the criminal Kobayashi-sensei saw...
Conan: If you prove that what she said was true, she might open up her heart again!

Mitsuhiko: But none of the voices of the suspects who had a grudge against the victim, Sumida-san, matched the voice sensei heard, right?
Conan: Yeah...

Genta: And she did say she saw the criminal's fleeing silhouette, but...
Ayumi: All we know is that it was a woman with a large chest and long hair tied up in the back...

Ai: Also there's the truck that she saw that was stopped right up to before the crime occurred...
Ai: But a moving truck or other similar truck with the numbers 0 and 9 on it couldn't be found...

Ai: Isn't that right?
Shiratori: Y-yeah...
Conan: Who were the suspects?

Shiratori: Let's see. There was the foulmouthed Kagitani Kikuna-san, a former Ladies' Leader.
Shiratori: The hostess of a small restaurant, Takimoto Ryouko-san, who had a cold...
Shiratori: And Kodama Ryuusuke-san, a former hero at Koshien who ruined his shoulder and now works at a host club...

05

Shiratori: Currently, the only thing to do is to ignore Kobayashi-sensei's testimony and...
Conan: So you're saying sensei was lying to you?
Ayumi: Kobayashi-sensei wouldn't lie!

Conan: Then let's reason through this!
Conan: Let's figure out why sensei misinterpreted things that way...
Shiratori: Misinterpreted?

Shiratori: Eh?

Ayumi: C-Conan-kun!?

Ai: Is someone there?
Conan: Yes...A suspicious figure was spying on us...

Genta: Was it the criminal?
Mitsuhiko: It could be! The criminal apparently saw sensei's face...
Conan: You idiot! They wouldn't be able to figure out who she was just by seeing her face!

Conan: It was probably some guy with a camera trying to sneak pictures of little girls.
Ayumi: Ehhhh!?

Conan: Well, we're not gonna settle this here, so let's go!

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Conan: Kobayashi-sensei said she'd be late today preparing her lessons...
Conan: so if we waited for her, we might be waiting quite a while...

Teacher: Well, I'll be going home now...

Teacher: I'll leave locking up to you!
Kobayashi: Ah, okay!
Kobayashi: Good work...

Kobayashi: *sigh*

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SFX: Rinnnng
SFX: Rinnnng

Kobayashi: Hello! This is Teitan Elementary School...
Phone: Sorry it's so late. This is the police...Is Kobayashi-sensei there?

Kobayashi: This is she. But I have nothing more to speak with the police about...
Phone: Well, we've found the truck with the 0 and 9 on it that you saw...
Phone: We took a photo, so we'd like you to confirm it...

Kobayashi: Ah, okay...If you could bring that by here tomorrow...
Phone: Ah, no...We'd like for you to confirm it as soon as possible. I'm already right by the school, so if you could get the guard to open the gate...

Kobayashi: I-is that so?
Kobayashi: Okay, come to the staff room...
Phone: How about the music room?
Phone: I actually used to go to this school and was in the brass band... I'd like to see the place again and reminisce...

Kobayashi: Ohh, is that so? Okay, I'll head to the music room...
Phone: Okay, I'll be waiting...

Kobayashi: So he used to go to this school...
Kobayashi: I wonder when he graduated.

Kobayashi: Maybe...
Kobayashi: he was a classmate of mine...

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Kobayashi: Wait?
Kobayashi: But the music room was reconstructed last year. The walls and desks and pretty much everything was redone, so there wouldn't be anything to reminisce about...

Kobayashi: And that person's voice...
Kobayashi: I've heard it somewhere...

Kobayashi: Eh!?

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Sign: Music Room

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Ryuusuke: What!?

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Satou: Hoo
Ryuusuke: Wh...
Ryuusuke: What the!?

Ryuusuke: Who the hell ARE you!?
Conan: She's the Police Headquarters 1st Department of Investigation's 3rd in command of violent crime...

Conan: Assistant Inspector Satou Miwako, Kodama Ryuusuke-san.
Ryuusuke: The police!?
Ryuusuke: She's not a teacher?

Conan: Yeah...we met the real teacher in the corridor...
Conan: had her go under the care of Inspector Shiratori and put Assistant Inspector Satou in her place!

Ryuusuke: So you knew I'd be coming here!?
Shiratori: Yes...From Kobayashi-sensei's testimony...

Ryuusuke: Don't be ridiculous!! Wasn't that teacher saying crap like "the criminal's a woman" and "I saw a truck with the numbers 0 and 9 on it"?
Ayumi: It wasn't crap!
Ayumi: You just looked like a woman is all!

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Conan: That's right...Just like how someone looks like they're thinking when they put their hand on their cheek when their cavity aches...
Conan: when you held your hurting shoulder as you ran, your elbow looked like a woman's breasts in your silhouette!

Mitsuhiko: Also, sensei knew that there was a woman purse snatcher in the area...
Mitsuhiko: so when she heard someone saying, "Just hand it over! I'll kill you!"...
Mitsuhiko: she intuitively assumed that woman was the criminal!

Genta: And that lady who was killed really, really looks like a man...
Ai: The argument sensei heard was between a man and a woman...
Ai: And, when she found Sumida-san's corpse, she thought she was a man...

Ai: So you can't blame her for thinking the criminal was a woman...
Ai: Is that thinking correct?
Conan: Yeah...She never would have thought that the one yelling "I'll kill you", was Sumida-san...

Conan: And, well, it looks like the real criminal cut his hair in order to fool us...

Shiratori: Also, the truck she saw at the scene didn't have the numbers 0 and 9 on it. It had the letters O and S...
Shiratori: It was a truck from Osaka Smile Transportation that had the company name spelled out in the Roman alphabet...
Shiratori: Because the wall cut off what she could see, she thought they were numbers!

Shiratori: That truck was the truck Agasa-san's friend was using to move his stuff and it was stopped at the crime scene in order to call for directions...
Shiratori: Just a bit ago, we emailed the driver pictures of you and the victim and got confirmation...
Shiratori: He saw you two at the scene...

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Conan: And the reason you knew that Kobayashi-sensei was a teacher at an elementary school was...
Conan: because I yelled "Sensei!" when I came running to the scene!
Conan: A kid calling someone "sensei" would make one assume that that person was an elementary school teacher!

Satou: So you saw her at a nearby elementary school and were attempting to silence her, huh?
Ryuusuke: Yeah...I was just going to hurt her a little before she could remember properly and threaten her so she wouldn't tell anyone...

Ryuusuke: I didn't want to be thrown in a cell just for killing that demon...
Satou: But didn't that demon lend you five million yen?

Ryuusuke: Yeah, that's right! I needed money to chase after my dreams...To pay for healing my shoulder and for a trainer...
Ryuusuke: That woman may not look it, but she was a real high school baseball fan. She knew of me and had hopes for me...

Ryuusuke: But once she found out my shoulder was irreparably damaged, she turned on me and treated me like trash...
Ryuusuke: I still had my eye on becoming a batter and was drawing ever closer to repaying her each day...
Ryuusuke: In the end, she was getting life insurance for me and told me to bring my seal...

Satou: So when she said "Just hand it over! I'll kill you!"...
Ryuusuke: Yeah...She was referring to my seal...
Ryuusuke: She was gonna get my life insured and then kill me!!

Ryuusuke: So I killed her before she could kill me! So I could chase after my dream!!
Ryuusuke: It's legitimate self-defense!!
Shiratori: Criminal Law Article 36...

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Shiratori: An act unavoidably performed to protect the rights of oneself or any other person against imminent and unlawful infringement is not punishable.
Shiratori: An act exceeding the limits of self-defense may lead to the punishment being reduced or may exculpate the offender in light of the circumstances.
Shiratori: That's the law regarding legitimate self-defense...

Shiratori: Since you possessed a blade at the time of the crime and intended to kill her, your instance fits neither of those...
Shiratori: Also, since you were prepared to use the tool needed to make your dream come true, a bat, to silence a witness...

Shiratori: You don't have the slightest bit of right to talk about dreams...

Shiratori: Criminal Law Article 235...
[TN: He actually says "Article 255", but what he goes on to quote is Article 235 so I went with that.]

Shiratori: A person who steals the property of another commits the crime of theft...
Shiratori: and shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than 10 years...

Kobayashi: C-could you be...
Kobayashi: the boy from the book store...?
Shiratori: So you've finally remembered...

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Shiratori: It was well before...
Shiratori: these children were born...

Shiratori: That I...
Shiratori: fell in love with you.

Kobayashi: I-I see...
Conan: That was cheesy...
Mitsuhiko: C'mon, c'mon...

Satou: Hey, is that the teacher that Shiratori-kun is head over heals for?
Conan: Y-yeah...

Satou: She looks really familiar...
Conan: That's cause she looks like you!

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Takagi: Ah, Shiratori-san!

Takagi: We were just going to get some lunch...
Guy: Wanna come with?
Shiratori: No...I'll restrain myself...

Shiratori: Because I've got this!

Guy: That's gotta be a homemade bento made by Kobayashi-sensei!
Takagi: Homemade bento...

Takagi: Ah, Satou-san!
Takagi: How about a bento for me, too...?
Satou: Hm?
Satou: A bento...?

Satou: Oh, if you're going to get a convenience store bento, get one for me, too!
Satou: I'll leave what kind up to you!
Satou: As long as it fills me up, anything's fine!

Text in right margin: Takagi will probably never get to taste the happiness of a homemade bento that Shiratori is tasting.